Commissioner designate Stéphane Séjourné, up for the job of executive vice president for prosperity and industrial strategy, during his confirmation hearing at the European Parliament in Brussels. Photo credits: Jennifer Jacquemart / European Union Commissioner designate Stéphane … | Continue reading
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As the COVID-19 pandemic clearly demonstrated, health is an integral part of Europe’s security. That principle underpinned a recent expert panel discussion, organised by Science|Business and Novartis, which debated how Europe can innovate to achieve greater strategic autonomy… Re … | Continue reading
Altare della Patria, Rome, Italy. Photo credits: fede 92 (on/off) / Flickr Italy is the most active country in the culture, creativity and inclusive society cluster of Horizon Europe, having received the most money, at €80.5 million, or 11.2% of the total, hosting the most organi … | Continue reading
Photo credits: darrenmbaker / BigStock Public and nonprofit funding for research into alternative proteins that have the potential to meet the increasing demand for meat whilst making the food system more sustainable, is growing at pace in Europe, with an average increase of 70% … | Continue reading
Photo credits: European Union Here’s a Horizon riddle for you. Q. What do you call a research project that goes on and on and on? A. A… Subscribe to read more | Continue reading
The Berlaymont building in Brussels houses the headquarters of the European Commission, Photo credits: Fred Romero / Flickr In one way or another, EU Framework Programmes have always been a policy instrument. But the latest set of leaked work programmes show there will be ever mo … | Continue reading
Photo credits: zverge / BigStock The EU is strengthening its commitment to digital research through policies, funding programmes and international partnerships, in a bid to drive innovation, economic growth, societal resilience and competitiveness.<… Subscribe to read more | Continue reading
Photo credits: COP29 / United Nations As the 29th UN Climate Change conference kicks off this week in Baku, Azerbaijan, the EU’s is funding for clean technology research, innovation and roll out are gathering momentum. … Subscribe to read more | Continue reading
Ekaterina Zaharieva, commissioner-designate for start-ups, research and innovation, on November 5, 2024. Photo credits: Eleonora Francica / Science|Business The start-up community is feeling good about having a European Commissioner assigned to look after its interests, even if t … | Continue reading
Collaboration between universities and industry is essential for transforming academic research into practical innovations that can impact the real world. However, the strategies used to make these collaborations possible have often lacked rigorous testing. This has led to uncert … | Continue reading
Elsevier, a global leader in information and analytics, and provider of data and AI-enabled decision support tools for innovation in life sciences, today announced a commitment to support global not-for-profit organization The Pistoia Alliance, which advocates for greater collabo … | Continue reading
The global network of accelerators for early-stage climate entrepreneurs aims to speed 10,000 eco-innovations to scale this decade. The Earthshot Prize has announced a new global network, with 17 initial members, to… Read more here | Continue reading
In October 2024, Business Finland granted the BATCircle3.0 (Finland-based Circular Ecosystem of Battery Metals) consortium with 13.4 million euros for the next three years. BATCircle3.0 represents one of the most relevant and timely research areas as it targets the material trans … | Continue reading
As of the closing date on 5 November 2024, 140 Photonics21 members participated in the two-week online election for the Photonics21 Board of Stakeholders - reflecting an impressive turnout of 79.54% among registered voters. We are pleased to announce that the following 20 member… … | Continue reading
A Science|Business online conference, 1500-1600 CET/900-1000 EST 14 November 2024 Following Donald Trump’s surprise re-election to the White House, the research community has been struggling to understand what it could mean for US R&D policy… Read more here | Continue reading
Piotr Serafin, Commissioner-designate for budget, anti-fraud and public administration. Photo credits: European Union Piotr Serafin, Commissioner-designate for budget, anti-fraud and public administration, has played down rumours circulating in Brussels and denied reports the Com … | Continue reading
Piotr Serafin, Commissioner-designate for budget, anti-fraud and public administration. Photo credits: European Union Piotr Serafin, Commissioner-designate for budget, anti-fraud and public administration, has played down rumours circulating in Brussels and denied reports the Com … | Continue reading
The 2024 Wire Conference venue - Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design [© mome.hu] A major conference on innovation and regional development is being held in Budapest next week under the Hungarian EU presidency amid growing recognition that the European Union’s diverse regions … | Continue reading
Trust and Identity services are a keystone enabling technology for a range of research and education initiatives across Europe and Worldwide. The key principle of this strategy is to ensure that the GÉANT community continues to be the trusted provider for the T&I services in R&… … | Continue reading
Innovate UK will provide further funding to small and medium sized businesses (SMEs) to help them deliver net zero products and services. The Net Zero Living programme is a three-year £60 million programme that invests in helping places and businesses accelerate the transition to … | Continue reading
Nordic Innovation House is a physical and digital meeting place for Nordic organizations and innovative companies that want to collaborate and benefit from Silicon Valleys's unique innovation climate. Anna Delin is one of Sweden's representatives on site. Why is Vinnova… Read mor … | Continue reading
Light-emitting microchips could transform the future of computing and University of Twente (UT) researcher Floris Zwanenburg is helping lead the way. Together with Erik Bakkers (TU/e) and Jonathan Finley (Technical University of Munich), Zwanenburg has secured a €14 million ERC S … | Continue reading
Photo credits: / Flickr R&D budget cuts. Visa restrictions. Anti-China policies. Political witch hunts on campus: these are among the scary memes circulating in the US academic community following Donald Trump’s election to what promises to be a turbulent second term… Read more h … | Continue reading
Photo credits: firebrandphotography / BigStock The EU is out to better understand the factors behind authoritarian political movements, with plans to increase the funding for research in this area, according to a Read more here | Continue reading
President of the United States Donald Trump speaking with attendees at the 2023 Turning Point Action Conference at the Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Florida, US. Photo credits: Gage Skidmore / Flickr Worries are mounting in Europe after Donald Trump won … | Continue reading
In a new EU project, the Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM) is developing standardized measurement methods for investigating the surfaces of nanoparticles. The goal is to further improve the functionality and safety of nanoparticles. Due to their tiny size of … | Continue reading
MEPs questioning Ekaterina Zaharieva, commissioner-designate for start-ups, research and innovation, during her confirmation hearing at the European Parliament in Brussels. Photo credits: Lukasz Kobus / European Union New research commissioner Ekaterina Zaharieva passed the test … | Continue reading
Ekaterina Zaharieva, commissioner-designate for start-ups, research and innovation, attending her confirmation hearing at the European Parliament in Brussels on November 5, 2024. Photo credits: Lukasz Kobus / European Union Ekaterina Zaharieva, commissioner-designate for start-up … | Continue reading
In the map: investment for jobs and growth goal (the European Regional Development Fund and the European Social Fund) eligibility, 2021-2027. Photo credits: European Union Synergies are a great idea on paper, but in practice tapping the links between different EU funds has proved … | Continue reading
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Emmanuele Angione, managing partner at Dublin-based innovation consultancy, Lira. Photo credits: Lira To do well in the European Innovation Council’s (EIC) tough competition for start-up funding, EU member states should first invest in fostering their local start-up ecosystems, a … | Continue reading
Photo credits: Niyazz / BigStock As the European Commission draws up plans for an EU-wide legal status to help innovative companies grow in Europe, more than 20 start-up associations have come together to publish a list of the features they want to see included.<… Subscribe to re … | Continue reading
Photo credits: beast01 / BigStock With a total of €3.6 billion since 2021, the Health cluster of Horizon Europe’s Pillar II is only behind Climate & Energy, and Industry & Space in the funding league table. From this pot, there are three clear winners: Germany, the… Subscribe to … | Continue reading
Group picture with research commissioner Iliana Ivanova (fourth from the left) during the ceremony of the inauguration of EIC Scaling Summit on October 21, 2024, in Greece. Photo credits: Yorgos Karahalis / European Union The European Innovation Council (EIC) Trusted Investors Ne … | Continue reading
Sweden needs an ambitious technology policy to cope with future competitiveness, security and to transform into a sustainable society. This is what Vinnova writes in a report to the government and identifies six technology areas that should be prioritized. Rapid technological… Re … | Continue reading
Securing skilled workers for the chip industry – with this goal in mind, the nationwide flagship project “Skilled workers for microelectronics: skills4chips” funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), launches on November 1, 2024. A key component is the esta … | Continue reading
Imperial Global USA – the university’s first physical presence in the US – has been launched with a pledge to create 100 new US-UK science and technology partnerships in 2025. The new hub makes Imperial the first UK university to have a permanent science and tech base on US soil… … | Continue reading
The Fraunhofer Institute for Energy Economics and Energy System Technology IEE in Kassel has a new leader: Prof. Martin Braun is taking over as the new director of the research institute on November 1, 2024. He is also a professor for sustainable electrical energy systems at the … | Continue reading
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Imperial has launched its US hub in San Francisco, making it the first UK university to have a permanent science and tech base on US soil. Imperial Global USA – the university’s first physical presence in the US – is being… Read more here | Continue reading
Public and private sector investment are coming together to take artificial intelligence (AI) research in Finland to the next level. The Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture has committed 10 million euros per year (during 2025-2028), as well as 6 million euros for the launch … | Continue reading
Photo credits: jaroslavav / BigStock A flurry of climate, energy and mobility projects in the 2025 work programme for Cluster 5 in Horizon Europe are to be subject to a “societal readiness pilot”, to test their likely acceptability to society at large, according to a Read more he … | Continue reading
The technological knowledge in 5G, in addition to the technologies that advance Industry 4.0, have already allowed INESC TEC to carry out half of the pilots planned by NOS’ TestBed 5G – which will support, by the end of 2025, the development of products and services resorting to … | Continue reading
An international research team led by QuTech has demonstrated a network connection between quantum processors over metropolitan distances. Their result marks a key advance from early research networks in the lab towards a future quantum internet. The team developed fully independ … | Continue reading
Portugal’s former science minister Manuel Heitor during the publication event of the High-Level Group report on the mid-term review of Horizon Europe on October 16, 2024, in Brussels, Belgium. Photo credits: Bogdan Hoyaux / European Union The recommendation to set up a European T … | Continue reading
In today’s fast-evolving field of biomedical research, some of the most critical questions can only be tackled effectively with a global perspective. For example, why do certain genetic variations in DNA cause severe diseases in some individuals but not others? How do subtle diff … | Continue reading
A team of EU scientists is developing a new advanced camera that uses photonics to reveal what the eye cannot see. This innovative system is being developed to transform various industries, including vertical farming. It will allow farmers growing crops like salads, herbs, and… R … | Continue reading